Stoves manufactured since 1988 tend to be safer, more efficient (less firewood!), and cleaner burning (less smoke, fewer chimney sweepings!). Cast-iron stoves are still an option — they hold heat more ...

Most of these stoves were not meant for cooking — though Gunsolus owns a few rare examples of stoves that heat and cook, and he has a few antique cast-iron kitchen ranges, as well.

Good Time Stove restores old wood cookstoves, but the stoves first need to get to the company’s shop. Cast-iron cookstoves weigh around 400 to 600 pounds, Richardson said, so three strong people ...

Stoves were often the largest objects in the room of 18th- and 19th-century homes. They were needed for heat and cooking. Cast-iron stoves came in many styles, most cast with curlicues and picture… ...

The Queen, a cast-iron and tin baby stove from 1915, burned coals or wood in its belly, while this lime-green metal toy stove from 1930 plugged into the wall. Both stoves had open burners, just ...

Typically, cast iron made before 1957 is considered "vintage." These older pieces can command prices as juicy as the steaks ...

ATTLEBORO -- This Saturday, the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum will open an exhibit of antique wood- and coal-burning stoves called “Embers of Innovation.” The cast iron stoves have all been ...